Why is there something rather than nothing? A probabilistic answer examined

Peter van Inwagen has given an answer to the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’. His answer is: Because there being nothing is as improbable as anything can be: it has probability 0. Here I shall examine his argument for this answer and I shall argue that it does not work because...

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Main Author: Rodriguez-Pereyra, G
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018